A Hindu-Canadian Wedding In Winnipeg

59

Date

June 25 & 26, 2016

Guests

130

Theme

Breanna and Vibhu met while both were headed to Japan for teaching positions. “We were seated together alphabetically for our flight,” Breanna explains. “The sun was shining over Winnipeg that July morning, and our lives were about to get a whole lot sunnier!”

Later that year Breanna and Vibhu arranged to go to Osaka together. “We both showed up in Osaka with no plan, and I had never been happier,” Breanna remembers. “I knew then that this was something special.”

For their wedding, the couple had two dates. The first included a morning Hindu ceremony followed by a lunch, and the second day was a Canadian ceremony with a cocktail hour and reception. “For our first day we chose a maroon and gold colour palette,” Breanna explains. “The second day we had purple and ivory as our colours. Purple is my favourite colour, and I wanted a royal purple to feel like a queen.”

One of the funniest moments was during the Canadian ceremony, during which the wind blew the ceremony backdrop onto Breanna. “I was engulfed in it, and everybody, including us, burst into laughter,” Breanna recalls. “During our Hindu ceremony, our priest also had a really great sense of humour when I didn’t know what I was doing. Our guests were engaged the whole time!”